There are many different kinds of moms, this is something that we have come to know through interacting with other people and of course meeting mothers in every day life and in TV, movies and books.
There are tough "tiger moms" who refuse to have their 20 year old go on a date. There are the "cool hippie moms" who let their children experience everything in life. The blogger moms who know the latest trend in parenthood and what new dish to cook that has all the needed vitamins and minerals.
No matter what kind of mom you are or no matter what kind of mom you have, society can have high expectations of mothers, these can be so high that moms are often judged on their parenting or how they raise their kid.
Like, you're a "bad mom" if you don't let your kid have a summer activity or extra curricular activity like swimming lessons or art lessons, or making them learn a third or fourth language. (Because us Filipinos already speak two languages. Boom!)
You're a bad mom if you have tattoos and give your kids sweets before bed time. You're a "bad mom" if you let your kid pass an ugly project at school (it would be more acceptable if you did your kid's own project). And lastly, you're a "bad mom" when you have a job and leave your kids for work.
Amy Miller (Mila Kunis) is a mom with two kids, she's grasping at straws driving the kids to and from school, getting them to soccer practice and what not, all the while juggling a job where she is underpaid and underappreciated. At the beginning of each day, she cooks them breakfast and makes sure that their school projects are done (by doing them herself).
The president of the PTA, Gwendolyn (Christina Applegate) and her posse judges Amy for not being a "good enough" mom.
Things start to fall apart when Any catches her husband cheating and kicks him out of the house. What follows is a really, really bad day and at the end of it, Amy decides to just give up being a good mom and to just embrace being a "bad mom" instead.
She meets tough-as-nails, sexually overactive single mom Carla (Kathryn Hahn) and the timid but super cute stay-at-home mom Kiki (Kirsten Bell) and the three just decide to be 'bad moms' all together.
What follows is a belly-ache of laughs and some tears as the "bad moms" take on Gwendolyn head on in an unprecedented PTA election.
Each character shines in the film, with the actresses delivering a different kind of mom on the screen. The audience was laughing so hard at the crazy antics that one audience member even let out a very loud "Hala!" in one very awkward scene.
While the movie may be putting up the appearance of "moms gone wild" in its trailers, (after all what do you expect from the writers of 'The Hangover') there is more than "Bad Moms" than the party and the booze (All mom parties, no matter how wild they get, end at 11:00 PM) as it takes you home to family values (nice speech on 'entitlement' there!) and what really matters when raising your kid - and nope, it's not getting a high score in standardized tests- but it's raising them to be kind individuals. That it's okay to make mistakes and it is in making them where you learn (not having school 365 days a year).
What good will all the hours of PTA meetings be when you yourself don't spend time with your kids?
8 out of 10, "Bad Moms" is a surprisingly hilarious R-rated film with a lot of heart, something that we don't get to see often these days. "Bad Moms" is now showing!
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